Middle School & General ~ see also our ESL Resources and our Language Arts - Elementary Resources
- Better English ~ designed for ESL students, there are excellent exercises here for usage and verb tense
- Brain Pop English ~ short movies, with quizzes, on topics such as semi-colons, run-on sentences, parts of speech - includes the seldom seen topic of sentence diagramming
- British Council Grammar Games - English Grammar Games from England ~ these tend to be more difficult than US exercises
- Common Errors in English ~ a guide to confusions, misuse, irritating errors
E.L.Easton's
English Grammar Online ~ comprehensive links to
pedagogy, activities, quizzes and tests- English Compass Grammar - portal to global links, not annotated but beyond those you will find here
- Grammar Blast ~ online exercises & challenges from Houghton Mifflin English - Grades 2-5 - cover basic grammar - suitable for review - the site also contains proofreading drill, short passages with common usage and punctuation errors, for grades 2-8.
- Grammar Rocks ~ this is fun: many of the short songs about grammar from SchoolHouse Rocks
- Grammar Bytes ~ somewhat uncharted territory and still growing, but seems sound for Middle School
- Grammar Gorilla ~ from Funbrain.com - use the advanced level
- Guide to Grammar & Writing ~ lessons and quizzes, PowerPoint presentations covering "sticky" topics
- Homonym quizzess
- Humbug's Grammar ~ exercises based upon A Christmas Carol, from Least Tern - advanced Middle School
- Judith Vorfeld's Writing Center / Webgrammar - Middle School resource for such sticky topics as homonyms, confused words, spelling...
- NC Conference of English Teachers ~ grammar & punctuation guide
- Pop-up Grammar ~ JavaScript enabled site is an online quiz site - future plans include enabling teachers to make their own quizzes - requires free login - some banner ads
- ReviseWise English - from the BBC Schools - contains instructional short exercises suitable for grammar, poetry, reading, fiction writing and spelling units - requires sound and Macromedia Flash reader
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OWL ~ the on-line Purdue Writing Lab
Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Handouts ~ Each of these topics is divided into sub-topics. These include explanatory material, examples and exercises. The explanatory material is first rate and thorough, accessible but not oversimplified. The pages all include printable versions and are use friendly. The grammar section is divided into five topics: adjectives and adverbs, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, sentence structure, and verbs.
- Subject and predicate
- Identifying subject exercise
- Identifying predicate exercise
- Compound verbs
- Auxiliary verbs
- Linking verbs
- Linking verb exercise
- Using adjectives and adverbs
- Recognizing clauses
- Identifying clauses
- Dependant clauses
- Review dependent clauses
Professor Darling's Grammar Lessons ~ Includes interactive quizzes - from England so again some examples and terms will be unfamiliar
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation ~ shortened online version includes exercises and tests on many of the topics that need constant review
American Heritage Book of English Usage ~ if you can tolerate the advertisements!
Fundamentals of English Grammar : Description and Use ~ an online text, quizzes included
Internet Grammar of English ~ interactive grammar, Java enabled ~ from England
Grammar for Reading and Writing ~ Dan Kurland has created these pages to take a look at how a study of grammar can improve reading and writing ~ a rich and interesting resource that has its core in critical thinking skills
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- Humbug's Grammar ~ exercises based upon A Christmas Carol, from Least Tern
- Exercise or Test to follow Humbug's Grammar
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Hot Potatoes Grammar ~ The following are examples of online interactive grammar exercises that can be created simply using the free (to education) software called Hot Potatoes, from HalfBaked Software:
Least
Tern